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kittygrrl · 07-08-2016, 09:38 AM

I think the only word that fits what happened in Baton Rouge, murder. The video taken by the store manager, shows exactly how it happened to Alton Sterling. It's unspeakable, despicable violence on a man who was just selling cd's. I can't imagine how painful this must be for his children. His oldest son broke down crying for his daddy to come back during a statement read by his mother. It's heartbreaking. It's wrong. It has to be stopped right now!

We need to get involved in local politics and demand a more diverse police force. No excuses, from the police that they can't find qualified people of color. They are there but there has always existed an undercurrent of racism in our police departments in general so recruiting people of color isn't serious. Police attitudes about policing communities needs to change. Instead of lip service police should turn-in their armored tanks and hum-vees, and get involved in the community they serve and develop relationships with the locals. If that's not your thing, don't go for a career in law enforcement. Not every cop needs to carry a gun. There are other means of controlling a person other then shooting them. They need to retrain the police in general to use lethal force as a LAST resort and not allowed to draw their weapons for a minor offense (ie, selling single cigarettes or cds in front of a store). They need to understand they will go to jail if they make that choice. Police need to have penalities (ie, leave without pay) for using their gun on a citizen, no matter what the reason is. Police really have no penalites associated with using their guns instead of non-lethal methods of subduing an individual and so shoot first and deflect later works. The public wants to feel safe and so they are willing to give police card blanche on shooting whenever they feel it's necessary without the consequences a normal person on the street would face if he uses his gun. Police are not gods and their judgement and attitude can be/is far worse then a person on the street. Yes they have to be cautious, Yes they have to be attentive, but they need to be subjected to the same laws that a regular citizen would be subject to, not protected from prosecution because they are more "special". We do not live in a perfect world and they (the police) are far from perfect.

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kittygrrl Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: witchy Preferred Pronoun?: Fae Relationship Status: just for fun Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: near the wild mushrooms Posts: 9,393 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 21,602 Thanked 21,969 Times in 7,088 Posts Rep Power: 21474861	I think the only word that fits what happened in Baton Rouge, murder. The video taken by the store manager, shows exactly how it happened to Alton Sterling. It's unspeakable, despicable violence on a man who was just selling cd's. I can't imagine how painful this must be for his children. His oldest son broke down crying for his daddy to come back during a statement read by his mother. It's heartbreaking. It's wrong. It has to be stopped right now! We need to get involved in local politics and demand a more diverse police force. No excuses, from the police that they can't find qualified people of color. They are there but there has always existed an undercurrent of racism in our police departments in general so recruiting people of color isn't serious. Police attitudes about policing communities needs to change. Instead of lip service police should turn-in their armored tanks and hum-vees, and get involved in the community they serve and develop relationships with the locals. If that's not your thing, don't go for a career in law enforcement. Not every cop needs to carry a gun. There are other means of controlling a person other then shooting them. They need to retrain the police in general to use lethal force as a LAST resort and not allowed to draw their weapons for a minor offense (ie, selling single cigarettes or cds in front of a store). They need to understand they will go to jail if they make that choice. Police need to have penalities (ie, leave without pay) for using their gun on a citizen, no matter what the reason is. Police really have no penalites associated with using their guns instead of non-lethal methods of subduing an individual and so shoot first and deflect later works. The public wants to feel safe and so they are willing to give police card blanche on shooting whenever they feel it's necessary without the consequences a normal person on the street would face if he uses his gun. Police are not gods and their judgement and attitude can be/is far worse then a person on the street. Yes they have to be cautious, Yes they have to be attentive, but they need to be subjected to the same laws that a regular citizen would be subject to, not protected from prosecution because they are more "special". We do not live in a perfect world and they (the police) are far from perfect.